‘9’ is the Post-Apocalyptic Rag Doll Movie of the Year

This year might be the year Hollywood remembered that animation can do more than sell talking animals to young kids. Sure, we’ve endured the total average-ness of Monsters vs. Aliens and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, but 2009 kicked off with Coraline, which made a solid $75 million and is probably going to make my top ten list, and looks to round out the year with 9, which looks flat-out fantastic.

9 — not to be confused with the Daniel Day-Lewis musical Nine — started life as a short film from Shane Acker. When he decided he wanted to expand it into a feature, he found exec producers of no less name talent than Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (the latter of whom directed Wanted and Night Watch). The film is CGI but with a stylized look that suggests motion capture techniques, and follows a group of sentient rag dolls trying to survive on a post-apocalyptic Earth devoid of humans.

And yes, just writing that logline makes me happy. It comes out in the beginning of September, which isn’t a great month for movies but does allow it to get a super-neat release date: 9/9/09.

The teaser:

The full trailer:

A really disturbing clip for an animated movie:

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